On Tuesday 26 June 2007 17:15:45 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > '[gentoo-user] FEATURES="test" -- Should this work?': > > I recently enabled the "test" feature on Portage
It varies quite a bit between packages and maintainers. If you are sure there doesn't exist a bug for those packages already then I think it's ok to file some bugs about it. Don't file too many at once but wait and see what happens with the first reports before filing more. I.e. unless of course you have a fix. :) > I use paludis,. which does testing by default, and I've seen a number of > packages fail tests. I simply mask those specific versions. So I guess you've masked packages such as binutils, autoconf and automake? Who needs those anyway? *grin* ;) > Last time I checked, bug reports coming from alternative package manager > users were closed "fairly quickly". It depends very much on who the maintainer is. Some maintainers do support Paludis users.. The official stance is, however, that filing bugs using Paludis is currently discouraged. > Since you are using portage, your bugs may get a little more attention, but > I think the general consensus is that "tests aren't important" so they > generally get dropped to low priority, ignored until the next release, then > closed with a "refile if it affects the current release" message. Test failures are much more important if they are new. I.e. if the previous release didn't fail... -- Bo Andresen
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